Amartya Sen is one of the world’s best-known voices for the poor, the destitute and the downtrodden and an inspiration for policy makers and activists across the globe. He has…

Recent acts of terrorism and the pro-democracy unrest in the Middle East remind us how important it is to understand the relationship between violence, peace and democracy. In a challenging…

Amartya Sen is the most respected and well-known economist of his time. Offering an overview of the development process, this book is a synthesis of his thought, viewing economic development…

Amartya Sen’s first great book, out of print for many years, now reissued in a fully revised and expanded second edition

‘Can the values which individual members of society attach…

Resources, Values and Development contains many of Amartya Sen’s path-breaking contributions to development economics, including papers on resource allocation in nonwage systems, shadow pricing, employment policy, welfare economics, poverty assessment…

This volume is the only one of its kind to explore Sen’s work from a gender perspective. A special issue of the journal Feminist Economics, it features multidisciplinary contributions and…

This book describes the foreign policy of John Rawls and Amartya Sen while building up towards a policy recommendation. By redirecting some military spending to development goals, the core needs…

This compelling book introduces Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s capability approach and explores its significance for theory, policy and practice in education. The book looks particularly at questions concerning the education…